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The great carbon market racket

The great carbon market racket

By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick Nature and the people living with nature are exchanged on a market so that polluters can keep polluting and speculators can profit. Carbon reduction and biodiversity protection schemes are simply a corporate money-making racket. Carbon markets have come under intense criticism in recent years, with entities facing accusations of “greenwashing” and a number of high-profile cases involving phantom credits, exploitation of local communities and human rights abuses. In a report for the EMS Foundation, it was found that the carbon market, especially the...

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Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

By Abhishyant Kidangoor - Mongabay Scientists and conservationists have collaborated to create what is possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants. The database contains 4 million GPS data points that were collected by collaring 300 African elephants in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, home to the largest population of African elephants in the world. Based on the movement of elephants, the team assessed the landscape to identify key areas and corridors for conservation purposes. The findings have already been used to identify small-scale movement corridors for...

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CNRG STATEMENT ON ELEPHANT CULLING

CNRG STATEMENT ON ELEPHANT CULLING

The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has learned with shock and deep concern a decision made by the government to slaughter 200 elephants ostensibly to feed hungry citizens and reduce the elephant population, said to be way over the country’s carrying capacity. We argue that...

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The Journal of African Elephants was created by a group of concerned journalists, biologists and conservationists, who, after years of tracking and documenting the catastrophic decline of Africa’s elephant populations, have recognised the urgent need for a dedicated English and French news and commentary space to enhance and increase global awareness of the plight of Africa’s savanna and forest elephants. Our Commentary service, in particular, are writers that focus on the need to provide awareness of Africa’s elephants and affected surrounding human communities from a distinctly African perspective that, for the most part, is lacking in the dominance of Western media.